Fast and fabulous French fruit cake
Eliminate all of that preparation, waiting and soaking time from a classic fruit cake recipe and you have what is known as 'French fruit cake'. All the yumminess of the traditional Christmas loaf laden with candied peel, fruit, nut and rum - but without the wait!
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 170g candied orange peel
- 60g chopped walnuts
- 70g raisins
- 70g sultanas
- 2 tablespoons plain flour
- 115g butter, softened
- 100g caster sugar
- 2 1/2 tablespoons honey
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/2 tablespoons evaporated milk
- 2 tablespoons dark rum
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 190g plain flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
Method
Prep:20min ›
Cook:55min ›
Ready in:1hr15min
- Toss the candied orange peel, walnuts and raisins with 2 tablespoons flour. Set aside.
- In a large bowl cream the butter with the sugar and honey. Beat in the egg, then the milk, rum and vanilla. Stir together the remaining 190g flour and the baking powder; beat into the creamed mixture. Stir in the fruits and nuts. Turn the mixture into a greased and floured 2 lb (900g) loaf tin.
- Bake in a preheated 180 C / Gas 4 oven for 10 minutes. Lower the heat to 170 C / Gas 3. Bake the cake 45 minutes longer, or until it tests done with a skewer. Transfer to a rack to cool.
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Reviews & ratings
Average global rating:
(4)
Reviews in English (3)
I made this one for my husband who loves fruitcake. It was moist, buttery with a nice proportion of fruit to cake. It was a big hit! - 31 Dec 2006 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)
This is definitely our kind of cake because we do like all the fruits. This also keeps well (wrapped in foil) - can also drizzle some rum over the top after it is baked. I did make one change and that was to subsitute corn syrup for honey (no honey lovers here) which works fine. Highly recommend this little fruit cake. - 30 Oct 2010 (Review from Allrecipes US | Canada)